three. cheers for. the old free blog cancelling videos for your media project a free media oh god r t dot com. fresh mass protests loom in egypt while the opposition declares war on the referendum on the constitution calling he told the vote after claims a widespread fraud. doesn't egypt and others continue to reform the effects of the arab spring some additional reason i'll say than two years old things have only got was. also this hour for you the march of the medical workers of thousands in spain first has the health properties ation has until stairs he answered it's called for more against the national guards.

and this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. now the main opposition group in egypt has supporters to again occupy the streets and squares in a bid to challenge the first round of the referendum on a new constitution the national salvation front wants a repeat over the weekend poll claiming it was plagued by overwhelming forward i'm concerned results indicates that fifty six percent approval the drop constitution which was drawn out by the islamists with the backing of the president i'm going muslim brotherhood it's vigorously rejected by the opposition who blame the government for turning the constitution into an islamist code and there's still time for campaign is against the draft to turn things around before the polls open for the referendum second stage on saturday national salvation front spokesman. is hoping the opposition's campaign complains won't remain on her. right

now we want the authorities the election commission to look into the violations and to decide by itself whether this is big enough in order to repeat the first round and in case we are going to go to the second round we want to make sure that the violations are not going to be repeated particularly in terms of the lack of judicial supervision there were not enough judges yesterday to look into the or to supervise the vote we also complained about preventing our observers the preservers our human rights groups from attending the counting process according to a decision by the judges we want to attend and be present during the counting and we also complaining about the fact that the muslim brotherhood members were continuing their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute trying to influence voters and tried to convince them to vote yes for the constitution claiming that voting no would that mean that you are an infidel or that you are against islam so we're still holding a lot of hope that president morsi will listen to the voice of wisdom and consider

that this is just an institution that's dividing the country even if we take the results that are being circulated right now it's not enough definitely in a country after the revolution to have a constitution that's approved by fifty something just. it was also a whole topic at all to dot com and we're asking you what future will the country face of its new constitution is adopted so far over a third of you believe the country could turn into a hardline islamic state and might see an eruption of sectarian violence fewer expect an ever uprising among those who believe the revolution has been hijacked some point tom that the new constitution does not differ that much from the old one and a minority say egypt will place a new fight for power between the muslim brotherhood and the military so go online to have your say. and as egypt continues to be gripped by instability it's just one of the countries still feeling the effects of the arab spring the regional a string of revolts has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and pulled down

several regimes with no side of it stopping under some of those who hold assuring the changes then say they're no better off now as all she is a rino going to chicago. it began here in tunisia two years ago when a poverty stricken front vendor set himself on fire in an act of just for a show and some say he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with a history of psychological problems whatever more holland was uses real motivation was his act of self-immolation set up a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were told bald what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions he wanted freedom of speech and free elections reading their tables their jobs one thing that seems to be very different result situation this war strife comparison to. comparison to the before. the river. personally i don't feel

safe. when we see. all the violence of the police. or of. salafist are tougher. if unpoliced man are attacked by some nationalist people. and there are less freedoms right now when it comes to and they were afraid i was there are attacks on individual freedoms every day there are civil so many messages from girls saying that they were. straight even by police men. who didn't tolerate their or their way off but the rest think this is to be a common pattern in the countries that share the so-called arab spring just two years ago hopes of transition from authoritarian regimes to new democratic forms of government seem to have you know rising islam in him economies in shambles and

increased interest content the pattern is the same and change in egypt where people are going out on the streets again with you when you asked the only months ago they were rallying in support of the muslim brotherhood and the freedom and justice party during elections a lot of people did vote for the muslim brotherhood in egypt did so because they wanted economic changes not just getting rid of mubarak or having morsi and morsi over though he's obviously you know very different political. ideology has carried on much the same policies in terms of economic policy in libya the uprising to bloody turn moammar gadhafi of the country for over four years as the host and killed in two thousand and eleven in your libyan government has been struggling to control parts of the country going as far as besieging the entire town of bani walid for allegedly providing shelter to diehard conductor supporters the are using

heavy machinery to demolish the demolished houses so it can't be using now looks at guys again it's just a feeling people children and now they're really sick reaming we've. the humanity of the world to. save our family. i got this time to make their magic work them where no one can stop them and they have unlimited money with the western leaders were quick to praise changes across the middle east they said it was the beginning of a new democratic era for the region but the model of democracy they may have had in mind doesn't seem to be the right fit i think it has to be a different type of a democratic system. the democracy that the u.s. would like to impose upon egypt tunisia and morocco and the other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the

gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia even goes right. thousands of medical workers have marched in the spanish capital against plans to privatized hospitals with more until sara to protest planned over the next few days madrid says the harsh financial measures are crucial to help the country climb out of its deep recession underclassmen to devise a patrick young believes the government's approach to the crisis is one that's playing in trouble in the first place. the problem is that the spanish government doesn't have any money and that's ultimately the problem the difficulty with the spanish government is that it hasn't actually wanted to to bite the bullet over the multiple areas in which it's been deficient for many many years and minutely one could say that was the previous government run rather than the current government however the truth is there is no money to pay all of these nurses and doctors there is no money for this loutish government infrastructure it has to be privatized sold

off and there have to be savage cuts because truly spain has spent the last decade living on the never never it was built on the back of a huge property bubble the bubble was unsustainable nobody managed to manage that and unfortunately while we can obviously say it's a tragedy for the poor independent health care professionals there's just no way to manage to find the money to pay them in modern spain the biggest shock of the whole year hasn't died leaving the fact that the euro is held together the european union is putting on a brave face it's throwing money around the place it's trying all manner of things to hold together a cracking and creaking facade and ultimately you know they might just manage to carry it off but ultimately i think the smart money is waiting in the wings and it's looking at the whole idea that we are going to see a euro break down even if it's not going to be as instantaneous as some of us might have predicted. or no tea for you green with. a blue was in the queue

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for more unity the country's opposition is threatening more marches later this week as antigovernment campaign is continue running against discrimination in october bahraini authorities banned public gatherings in times to stem almost two years of no stop protests in which up to eighty people were killed and thousands arrested last week prominent human rights defender and a bill were dropped his prison sentence reduced but this wasn't enough to calm activists who were calling on his immediate release saying a dollar from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain says the situation won't change as long as the government is funded by the way. i whenever they come under pressure from western allies like united states or u.k. they always talk the good talk but they never. do the walking and other wards recently they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to start a serious dialogue to reform the political situation however no such serious steps

has been taken for example we still see attacks on peaceful protests we still see political prisoners not the release torture still taking place human rights violations are based on daily basis the human rights issues the going to behind not allowing for just in the first place first the law or the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protests that said so this is a violation of international law so when people challenge the law that's not illegal there is a clear double here double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy. in the region especially rain and syria where the rise while asians are committed them behind on barely basis over the week we hear nor can the nation from the united states and we would like to see a larger scale of. diplomatic pressure and international pressure on the bahraini

regime so it will basically start a serious dialogue release all political prisoners and hold the criminals responsible killed and tortured the citizens of bahrain. and call for you french actor. to renounce his citizenship and seek exile in belgium after a whirlwind tide of paying millions of euros in taxes. and american police reveal more details about the man behind this sunday hook elementary school massacre our latest on the ongoing investigation is that for. a cause in syria bashar al assad's vice president says neither the government nor the web walls have the military power to prevail in the conflict. is calling for a peaceful solution through the creation of a unity government some rebel forces have said they are open to seeing sean right leading an interim cabinet neighboring turkey which strongly supports the

insurgents also considers the vice president to come in as a credible kinds of took place our side meanwhile democracy on the defensive as al qaeda linked militants claim to have captured an another loyalist base as their latest advance on the battlefield while russia and china continue to lead calls against foreign intervention. we've got the matter of this. should be decided by the syrian people not by the also force. force who say that i don't live the sky i want to gold. for the chinese. it's there. because you are following you don't you lack the ego boost and why should you view side who should stay or go so we have a problem with. that comes the moment. to some other international news stories in our north koreans are remembering who

died a year ago today hundreds of thousands of people led by the late leaders son and successor kim young gathered to mourn and being young the anniversary comes just days after north korea carried out another controversial rocket launch which was condemned by world leaders the communist country also remains economically challenged partially due to foreign substance. said to become the next prime minister has spoken of a huge task ahead of filling what looks like a convincing general election victory he has so to the liberal democratic party leader shinzo abi faces difficult decisions on the economy and lunch spews with china it's obvious second cintas a prime minister. in charge from two thousand and six to two thousand and seven i was appalled to just a landslide win with almost three hundred seats. the british government.

the british government and government i should say determined to go green it saving for fifteen percent of the country's energy needs to be generated by renewable sources by twenty twenty but those eco friendly abortions missions could come at a harsh cost was citizens smith has been finding out. wind turbines turn in the breeze they might not generate much power but they're certainly putting people in a spin it's a route that dividing david cameron's coalition government to get his energy minister says he's against wind farms and enough is enough while his energy secretary says he's going home for them to speak for the government the energy secretary or the energy minister or the prime minister but in this case he doesn't seem quite sure there's been no change to alter nubile energy but in the same breath he hinted the number of wind farms could be reviewed after current targets are fulfilled this would anger the liberals but greatly pleased those who say wind farms are an expensive waste of time such as landowner philip merrick's who lives

near little cheney caught wind farm the locals were united against it every single democratically local organization that's the councils were against it but of course the developers very careful they dished out a lot of money to locals and of course that board a bit of support amazingly wind farms have got a p.r. . campaign behind them but people do sing seem to think that they're helpful to the environment which of course they're not this one's been open since two thousand and eight and cheering that time output has improved but it's coming from a pretty no base that only twenty one and a half percent capacity in its first year to just twenty six percent last year there are twenty six wind turbines behind me each one of which costs in the region of two million pounds to erect according to locals we've come on

a good day all the wind turbines are currently working usually they say that's not the case and a lot of the time they're just standing there. and that's the rub people need electricity twenty four seven not just when the wind is blowing so wind power still needs supplementing by fossil fueled power stations but despite its shortcomings the taxpayer folks out fifty percent of it's running costs all subsidies the right way to encourage an instrument or are actually what you're doing and i think what we're doing is we're rewarding in adequate technologies now and indeed with fossilize in the more infantilizing them we actually preventing growth what we really need to save these people yes we can if you can improve and you can show that you've got a place you're welcome at the moment we're covering them with gold when in fact i quite inadequate locals are quick to point out that less than eight kilometers away is a nuclear power station supported by the community as a reliable source of power and local employer unlike the wind which is controlled

from germany but if david cameron refuses to be blown off course the government will stick to its plans and more than double the amount of on shore wind powered by two thousand and twenty to meet european targets nor smith can't. now stay tuned for a lively discussion of course talk in just a couple of minutes here not. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six fifty r.p.m. interviews intriguing stories are you. trying.

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hello and welcome to crossfire i'm peter lavelle all of me should watch what we eat but should we be taxed in the name of health when it comes to food this is one of the aims of the so-called fat tax governments all over the world and throughout history have pushed policies to shape behavior in the name of public health so should food be subject to punitive taxation. to cross out the so-called fat tax i'm joined by my guests in new york meanwhile she is the president of national action against obesity jeff steer he is a senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and donica moore she's a woman's health expert an advocate physician educator and a media commentator on cross talk rules and effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want me i probably should lose a few pounds because of the food i eat so should that food that i eat be taxed to

teach me to eat wetter better and to be have better health. well studies show if we increase costs or put about a twenty percent tax on certain foods that you will see a reduction in consumption i can't imagine someone trying to float a twenty percent tax on anything right now i see it more than a sin tax or punitive i see it more as if a company if their production results in waste or pollution then that company is responsible for those externalities i see it very much like that it's pogo view and if you make a person who says but that decision imposes a cost on others then yeah we should tax that that's the case with obesity it's based on our personal choices our lifestyle the costs associated with that are not wholly owned by that person we as a society are picking up the price picking up the bill on that escalating cost of health care diabetes for one is you know goes on for decades and what we see is

about three quarters of health issues are the result of personal choices so somewhere we have to get the revenue to cover those costs ok jeff but seems reasonable to me what do you think. mamie makes a better argument against government funded health care than she does for fat taxes you know one of the problems that we have in our society an obesity is a very real problem is that cheap food bad calories bad decisions what we need to do is you know if you think about the unintended consequences of a fat tax everyone's going to want to have less expensive food cheaper food but that's what some one of the activists are complaining about that food is too cheap so we're going to move to even less expensive probably less healthy foods to avoid the fat tax government big government activists often ignore the unintended consequence is they say we've got a big problem obesity and we do and they say here's

a solution you know the white house in the first lady's let's move campaign has taken a very reasonable approach i would wonder whether mimi thinks that the first lady has gone far enough or is she part of this whole corporate love fest or she is the first lady's let's move campaign right or has not gone far enough maybe go ahead maybe go ahead reply well look you know michelle obama is saying many of the things now that i've said for years that i think is wonderful and she's absolutely right that children need at least one hour of active play exercise each day we all need at least that if we have any hope of being healthy but where i think it hasn't gone far enough is it's very much in partnership with corporations and there's a profit motivation to have us eat more or you know there's a problem motivation behind selling food big business for food and beverage and i don't personally have a profit motivation behind what i do have and do.